Talk is cheap, but it’s also proving invaluable for Dartmouth.<\/p>\n
Making a concerted effort to increase their communication level, the 20th-ranked Big Green claimed the championship of their own Ledyard National Bank Classic last night with a 4-2 win over Bemidji State at Thompson Arena. Four different Dartmouth skaters scored and 11 contributed a point as the Big Green (8-4-0) won their own tourney for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n
The Big Green never trailed and essentially clinched the game on goals a shade over a minute apart from Matt Reber late in the second stanza and Josh Gillam early in the third.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to get that out of them,” Big Green coach Bob Gaudet said. “It’s such a huge part. When we don’t have that during practices, where we really hone this stuff, we try to stop things and make them be vocal. … I think they’re getting comfortable with each other in their communicating. We just want to try to keep things positive.”<\/p>\n
Jody O’Neill stopped 25 shots for the victory. O’Neill joined teammates Connor Shields, Connor Goggin and MVP Kyle Reeds on the all-tournament team. Reeds earned top honors for his two shorthanded goals in Sunday’s 5-4 overtime defeat of Army; he also started the play that led to Reber’s eventual game-winning goal against the Beavers (8-8-0).<\/p>\n
“Obviously, right now, it’s a little bit of a bitter pill, but we also lost to a better team, too,” Bemidji State coach Tom Serratore said. “They’re a quick team, a skilled team, they’re a big team. I really like their team.”<\/p>\n
Shields got Dartmouth started by one-timing a Nick Walsh pass to cap a two-on-one at 11:34 of the first period. Goggin doubled his lead with a cannon of a slap shot that beat BSU netminder Matt Dalton (21 saves) on the power play at 8:28 of the second.<\/p>\n
The Beavers’ Matt Francis chipped home a Brandon Marino feed on the man-up just 41\/2 minutes later. Reber and Gillam put the game out of reach, Reber finished a crease-edge pass from Troy Mattila at 19:21 of the second and Gillam at the tail end of a fine three-on-two counter with Scott Fleming and Joe Gaudet 22 seconds into the third period.<\/p>\n
Bemidji pounded O’Neill with 13 shots in the final stanza, but defender Brad Hunt’s extra-attacker goal with 2:56 to play was all the visitors would manage.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts beat Army in yesterday’s consolation game, 4-1. The Minutemen’s Cory Quirk doing the Dartmouth quartet and BSU’s Marino and Cody Bostock on the all-tournament team.<\/p>\n
Greg Fennell covers Dartmouth hockey for the <\/i>Valley News of West Lebanon, N.H.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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